There is in this book a scarlet
thread running through every word from beginning to end, like
the cord that Rahab was commanded of Joshua to tie to her window
by which she and her house were delivered from God's judgment.
That cord, that scarlet thread, is the blood of Jesus Christ
the Lord. It is the blood of Christ which
binds these 66 books together and gives the meaning. Everything
written upon the pages of inspiration has reference to the precious
blood of Christ. So tonight I want, by the grace
of God, to talk to you as best I can about the blood. Oh, what
a subject. The scriptures speak constantly
about the blood. Listen to the word. It is written
in the books of the law, the life of the flesh is in the blood. Did you ever notice what sanctity
there is given to even the blood of base animals in the Old Testament? Because the blood represents
the life. The blood of Christ represents
the life of Christ. When we talk about our Lord with
his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place with
his whole being. Sacrificed in the shedding of
his blood, he entered into the holy place with the merit of
his blood. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. When God delivered Israel, that
passage you read in Exodus 14, back in chapter 12, God gave
Moses instruction concerning the night of the Passover. And
he said to Moses, you take a lamb and you slay it. Every man in
Israel, slay a lamb for his house and sprinkle the blood on the
doorpost and the lintel. And this is what he said, when
I see the blood, I'll pass over you. I recall years ago, sometimes
things just stick with me. Brother Scott Richardson was
preaching right here. It's been 20 years ago, I guess. One of
the first conferences we had. He said, thank God, he said,
when I see the blood, not when you see it. At that time, Scott
had a brother he had just visited in an insane asylum that had
been out of his mind for a long, long time. He said, there may
come a time when Scott Richardson won't know who he is, much less
who God is. And it's not when I see the blood, but when he
sees the blood. And his eyes are always on the
blood. The blood, he told Moses, shall be to you for a token. Token. This ring here, I hardly
ever take it off. Matter of fact, I guess that's
the first time in a year I've taken it off, probably. You know what
that is? That's a token. That's a token
of somebody's love, commitment, and devotion. And God Almighty
said, when I see the blood, that blood which is the token to you
of my love, my covenant, my grace, I'll pass over you. When the
high priest of Israel went into the holy of holies to make atonement
on the day of atonement once a year, he went in but he dare
not go in except with the blood. He takes the blood of God's appointed
Lamb and goes into the Holy of Holies to represent God's sinful
people before God Almighty. He does it with blood. When the
Lord himself instituted the Lord's Supper, he was keeping the last
Passover feast with his disciples. The Passover was sitting at the
head of the table with them. And he said, as he picked up
that cup of wine, he said, this cup is the New Testament, and
my blood shed for many for the remission of sins. In Hebrews
chapter 9, if you want to be turning there, that will be our
text, but in verse 22 of this passage, we read without shedding
of blood is no remission. No forgiveness, no pardon. There can be no forgiveness.
Now listen, there can be no forgiveness. no remission of sin, no pardon
of sin, without blood. There's got to be a sacrifice
to satisfy the justice of God, a sacrifice of infinite worth
and merit, or God Almighty cannot pardon sin. Without the shedding
of blood is no remission. Now that makes the blood a matter
of indescribable, immense, infinite importance. These days it's common
for preachers and churches, theologians and hymn writers to say as little
as possible about the blood. Years ago, I recall folks talked
about, liberal theologians, they talked about, folks talked about
blood, said that's slaughterhouse religion. Well, there's going
to be a slaughter for folks who know nothing about it. An everlasting
slaughter. We've become so educated, so
refined, so sophisticated, that in these days talking about blood
is considered improper, unsophisticated, rude, crude. The Methodist Church
years ago, this has been a long time ago, decided to rewrite
their hymnal. They took their hymnal, there
wasn't much to start with, and took all references to the blood
out of their modern hymnal. Don't talk about blood. But still it is written, without
shedding of blood, is no remission. So this evening I want to talk
to you about the blood. Look at Hebrews chapter 9 for
just a moment, verse 12, passage that concluded our text last
Tuesday evening. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. with his blood. What redeemed us? His blood.
What bought us? His blood. What satisfied the
justice of God for us? His blood. What washed away our
sins? His blood. No wonder Peter talks
about the way he does. Flip over a few pages to 1 Peter
1. 1 Peter 1. Look at verse 18. For as much as you
know, You know. Now Peter is not making a presumptuous
assumption. He's making a well-founded assumption.
The assumption is that all who know God know this. All who are
born of God know this. All who are taught of God know
this. You know that you were not redeemed
with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation
received by tradition from your fathers. Martin Luther And that
day when he was struggling so greatly with Roman doctrine,
he'd been taught from his youth up, that monk who was so disciplined
and who was so tenacious in his studies recognized that the teaching
of Rome was just totally contrary to scripture. And when they were
trying to build that monstrosity over in Rome called St. Peter's,
they needed some money. And so the Pope sent priests
out selling indulgences. There was a fellow by the name
of Titzel, I believe it was. He came to Wittenberg, Germany,
and this is what he said as he walked through the streets passing
his cup around. When a penny jingles in the cup,
a soul is released from hell. And shortly thereafter, Luther
nailed his 99 Theses to the door of the church and the Reformation
was begun. You're not redeemed with corruptible
things. and the least of them, your money.
You're not redeemed with corruptible things, silver and gold, from
your vain, meaningless, empty, worthless conversation. That
word conversation is not talking about the way you talk, it's
talking about your life. You weren't redeemed from your vain
life. Oh my God, how that applies to
me. You too. Before he called me by his grace
Vain was a compliment. Vain, meaningless, empty, worthless. That conversation, that manner
of life you receive by tradition from your fathers. But, look
at this now, with the precious. Precious. Do you know how few
things God calls precious? Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of His saints. unto you therefore which believe
he is precious. We have precious faith given
by God, precious promises, and the precious trial of our faith.
But of all things precious, none more precious than this, the
precious blood of Christ. Precious, nothing like it. No
price with which to compare it. It's precious because it's his
blood. Precious because his blood is
the blood of the Lamb of God. Look at it. As of a lamb without
blemish and without spot. Holy, unblameable, unreprovable,
pure, perfect, worth something. The blood of the Lamb of God
who verily was foreordained. before the foundation of the
world, this land and this blood ordained by God for our redemption
and for the purposes which God has purposed it, it is effectual,
everlastingly effectual, for now we are redeemed, but was
manifested in these last times for you." For who? For God's elect, that's right.
For who? For those who are called. That's
right. Well, who are they? You who by
Him do you believe in? Do you believe? If you do, it's
by Him that you believe. But bless God, this blood is
effectual and precious. And it was manifest for you who
by Him do believe in God that raised Him up from the dead.
and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God. No wonder the hymn writer said,
what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other
fount I know nothing. but the blood of Jesus. William
Cowper wrote these words we sing so often and we'll sing them
when we get done here this evening, Lord willing. They're inscribed
on Spurgeon's tomb in the cemetery in London where he's buried.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream, thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die. The sharing of Christ's precious
blood was and is essential, absolutely essential to the saving of our
souls. Now I'm going to show you that
from the scriptures again this evening, but I want you to get
it. This was not an optional thing. This was not something
that God just decided to do because it was a way he would be magnanimous
in showing his love for us. That's not it, that's not it. There are many, I'm not just
pulling this out of my hat, there are many, this is what I was
taught when I was in seminary, Bible college, there are many
who teach that God could have saved sinners in any way he chose. In fact, they teach that God
saved sinners in the Old Testament by law. And now during this gospel
age, he saved sinners by grace through the blood of Christ,
and then there's a day coming in what they call tribulation
period, when he's going to save sinners by law again. Nothing
is more blasphemously contrary to scriptures. Nothing. God Almighty
could not Because he said he would not because he's just and
holy and he said the soul that said it shall die Therefore God
could not put away your sin without shedding the blood of his son
The Apostle Paul argues this way if righteousness come by
the law Then Christ is dead in vain Why did God sacrifice his
son if righteousness could come some other way? Well, that's
absurd Let us ever cherish the blood of Christ as that which
is precious above all things. Now turn with me, if you will,
to Hebrews chapter 9, and we'll look at verses 13 through 28. Verses 13 through 28. And I want
to show you four things. Four things. Number one, the
efficacy of our Savior's blood. Look at verse 13. Now since he, with his own blood,
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us, the Holy Spirit here reasons this way with us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifyeth to the purifying
of the flesh, and it did, how much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God. Now we've seen this repeatedly.
The blood of bulls and goats, those sacrifices ordained, prescribed,
and set aside by God specifically in the law of the Old Testament,
those animal sacrifices could never, they could never, they
could never put away sin. They could never satisfy a guilty
conscience. They could never make a sinner
acceptable with God. And the folks who offered those
things in faith understood that. When you get to Isaiah chapter
1, The Lord God speaks to those Jews who had just become ceremonialist
and ritualist who presumed that since Aaron was their priest
and they were the seed of Abraham and they went to the temple and
tabernacle and they offered their sacrifices as God prescribed
them, then that was good enough and God would accept it. He said,
who required this at your hand? Who called you to do this? In
fact, you get the latter part of Isaiah. He said, what you've
done, you just well offer swine's blood to me. You did well coming
off me the blood of a dirty hog. I won't accept your sacrifices
because they presumed by the mere outward performance of rituals
they were accepted with God and neglected him of whom the sacrifices
point to when they pointed and of whom they spoke. The blood
of bulls and goats could never take away sin. This is repeated
so often in the scriptures, particularly here in the book of Hebrews.
Those things were not intended. to put away sin. They were not
intended to be a way of access to God. They simply illustrated. They simply pictured. They simply
typified. They simply pointed to the Lord
Jesus Christ and his great sacrifice and the atonement he made by
it. But those sacrifices did ceremonially sanctify and cleanse
and purify and make men and women acceptable with God. Ceremonially. That's what they were purposed
for. Now this is what the Holy Spirit tells us here. How much
more shall the blood of Christ, God's own darling Son, that blood
offered to God without spot, without stain, without sin, that
blood offered through the eternal Spirit, that blood offered by
God's design and purpose, how much more shall this blood thoroughly,
purposefully, deliberately, and completely cleanse us from our
sins? purify our souls and deliver
us from the horrible delusion of seeking acceptance with God
by our dead works. Find a man, find a woman, find
a sinner to whom God has spoken peace by the blood and you'll
find a sinner who will never hear a preacher who endeavors
to speak peace by dead works. My conscience has been purged
from that. I will not bring something of
mine to God Almighty and expect God to accept me because of something
of mine. It's just dead works. Now listen
carefully. I've chosen my words deliberately.
You had just as well offer God Almighty a life of debauchery,
sacrilege, idolatry, adultery, drunkenness, theft, and murder
as offer God a life of perfect uprightness in the eyes of men.
It's exactly right. You just as well offer God spit
in the face of his son as offer God your tithe money and hope
to get something from him. You just as well offer God open
blasphemy as offer God your noblest sacrifices of praise without
faith in Christ. Is that right? That's exactly
right. The blood of Christ purged our
consciences from dead works. If the worshipers in the Old
Testament were allowed to come to God through the tax, and they
were. Everyone came in, offered blood,
went out and blessed the people through the types, as those types
pointed to Christ. How much more shall we be able
now in this gospel age to come to God in Christ? I keep going
back in my mind to that passage in Hebrews 4.16, let us therefore
come boldly to the throne of grace. What a word! that doesn't mean come with cockiness
now Lord we come no no no it does mean come with confidence
it does mean come freely come free come to God with reference
but come to God come to God as the king of all the earth but
come to God and come to him with freeness how on earth can this
abominable wretch of a man come to God Almighty in his absolute
incomprehensible greatness and holiness. How can I do that? I don't dare. Oh yes I can. Oh yes I can. And hide nothing
from him. through faith in his side. Come
freely, come freely. If the saints in the Old Testament
found comfort, peace, and confidence in the types as they pointed
to Christ, how much more comfort, peace, confidence, and assurance
we find by faith in Christ. The blood of Christ Effectually
cleanses us from all sins hold your hands here in Hebrews 9
and turn to 1st John 1st John chapter 1 Verse 7 if we walk in the light
we walk in the light Bobby I read that 14th chapter of Exodus a
little bit ago, and there was a passage there, never clicked,
just clicked when you read it. That cloud that was light to
Israel was darkness to Egypt. Did you see that? It was darkness
to the Egyptians, but it was light to Israel. The gospel we
preach is darkness to the world. Ah, but it's light to God's people.
We walk in the light as he is in the light. Look at this now.
Then we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin, past, present, and future. Look at the next line. If we
say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us. If we confess If we confess our sins, quit trying to hide from God.
Quit trying to pretend you're what you aren't. Just confess
what you are. Confess your sins. He's faithful. Faithful to his word. Faithful
to his son. Faithful to his covenant. Faithful
to his honor. And just what a great word. just. It is a matter of law,
justice, and truth for God Almighty to forgive us our sins. Look
at it. He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Sometimes I get letters, fellas,
it's because of poor teaching, I know that. But fellas, sometimes
they'll We ought not to pray now for the forgiveness of sins.
We ought not to talk about forgiveness in the present tense. That looks
present to me, doesn't it? It looks present. They say, well, but Christ already
atoned for our sins. He sure did, but I hadn't experienced
the forgiveness until he speaks peace. And as we confess our
sins. He's faithful and just to forgive
us our sins. That doesn't mean that that's
when he forgives them, but that's when he tells you about it. That's
when you experience it. He forgives us our sins and cleanses
us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we've not sinned,
we make him a liar and his word's not in us. All right, now look
at Hebrews 9.15. Here's the second thing. Not
only is the blood of Christ effectual to put away our sins, and has
done so, and forever secures for us the forgiveness of sin.
Here the Holy Spirit shows us the necessity of Christ's blood
shedding. And for this cause, for this
reason, he is the mediator of the New Testament. Now that word
testament, you can get your concordance and look it up, it is properly
translated testament. And I think probably best translated
testament in this passage because of what we'll see in the illustration
of it in a little bit. But the word's the very same
word as the word covenant. When you read the Old Testament
and the New Testament in your Bibles, it's the Old Covenant
and the New Covenant. Here he's talking about now the
covenant of God's grace, but it's given here as a testament.
For this cause, he's the mediator of the New Testament. New Testament. That's a pretty good term. The
testament, my last will and testament, that by means of death, now that's
the reason he came. For this cause, he's the mediator
of the New Testament, that by means of death, only way it could
happen. For the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first testament, the Old Testament. They which
are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance,
not the promise of eternal inheritances, but the promise of eternal inheritance. That means the inheritance that
Don Fortner has and Celeste Peterson has is the same inheritance,
if we have one at all. It's identical. It's the inheritance that Christ
won by his obedience in death. All right, read on. For where
a testament is, where somebody has made his last will and testament,
there must also be the necessity, must also of necessity, be the
death of the testator. For a testament is a force after
men are dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength
at all while the testator liveth. Now that shouldn't be too hard
to understand. Here the Holy Spirit shows us that Old Testament
believers were redeemed by the death of Christ in exactly the
same way we are redeemed by his death. This First Testament that's
spoken of in our text reaches from Adam to Christ. That's the
First Testament. from the creation of Adam until
the death of Christ. The transgressions of the sins
of the first testament are those sins committed by men from the
time that Adam first sinned until the time that Christ entered
into heaven with his own blood and obtained eternal redemption
for us. The redemption of those sins
was by Christ's death in exactly the same way as our redemption
is by Christ's death. Now hold your hands here and
turn back to John chapter 8. John the 8th chapter. Our Lord
is speaking to the Jews and the religious leaders of the Jews.
And he's just knocking props out from under them right and
left. Everything they leaned on, he was breaking up. Everything
they trusted in, he was destroying. And he says to those Jews in
John chapter 8 and verse 56, your father Abraham, your father
Abraham, you can read about it in Genesis chapter 15, chapter
16, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. You read it in
Genesis 22 just recently if you've been reading through the scriptures
with your calendar. saw that ram caught in the thicket,
picturing that one who is God himself a lamb for sacrifice.
And he laid him on the altar in the place of his son, set
his son free, and he said his name, this place, we're going
to call it Jehovah-Jireh. Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad. In other words, our Lord is saying
to these Jews, Abraham didn't trust that ram. Abraham didn't
believe in that ram. Abraham didn't rejoice in that
ram. Abraham saw me in the ram, and
he rejoiced in me. That's where faith is. It's in
me. The promise of eternal inheritance was made to all believers by
Christ, the mediator of the covenant, the mediator of the testament,
and it is that promise which is made to us as well today.
Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Now, there are a number of
things in this 10th chapter of 1 Corinthians that are such a
blessed, blessed picture of the types of the Old Testament. But
look at verse 4. He's talking about Israel eating the manna
that God gave, and Israel drinking the water that God gave in the
wilderness. You remember, God said to Moses,
smite the rock, and water gushed out. So Christ, the rock of our
salvation, was smitten by the rod of God's holy law, and the
water of life gushes out to us. It's a picture of our redemption.
And look what it says. And they, those Jews in the wilderness,
did all drink the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that
spiritual rock that followed them. And that rock was Christ. Now this is what it says. Then
what does it say? All who really drank the water
that came from that rock. Did you get it? All who really
drank the water that came from that rock. Not all of them who
quenched their thirst and caused their parched throats to be refreshed. All who really drank from the
water that came out of that rock. Kind of like taking the bread
and wine of the Lord's Supper. All who really eat and drink
unto the Lord, really do, really do. All who really drank of that
water, they drank of Christ, and they knew they were drinking
of Christ. That rock which followed them was Christ, was Christ. Now this is what our Lord is
teaching us here in Hebrews 9. Wherever there is a will and
a testament, there must also be the death of the testator. No claim can be made by the heirs
until the fellow who made the testament is dead. Can't do it. Sometimes we have a picture of
that prodigal in Luke 15. He said, Father, give me what's
coming to me. It ain't coming to you till I'm
dead. If I give it to you before that, it's just a matter of absolute
gratuity. But the testator has no legal
claim, or the one who's named in the Testament has no legal
claim to the possessions of the testator until the testator has
died. No legal claim to it. So that
the possessions could not actually be obtained. until all things
were fulfilled in the Testament. Our Lord Jesus, therefore, must,
of necessity, be lifted up from the earth. He must, of necessity,
fulfill the requirements of the Testament. He must, of necessity,
fulfill all the demands of God's law and justice, and once they're
satisfied, the Testament's made sure. The Testament's been ratified.
What happens when believers are converted? I'll tell you what
happens. This is a pretty good illustration. I read it years ago, during the
days of the Scottish Covenanters, when there was such terrible
persecution of believers in Scotland. A little girl was going to church
one Sunday morning, meeting in a barn or a cave, wherever they're
meeting, I don't know. And she saw the Queen's troops
approaching her. And as they approached, she prayed
in her heart, Lord, give me grace not to deny you, and wisdom to
speak to these men. And they approached her, roughly,
and said to a young lady, I think they would have said, lass. They
said, where are you going this morning? And she said, sirs, My elder brother has died, and
I'm going to a meeting of the family where we're going to read
his testament. That's what it is. That's what
it is. We've come together. Oh, I'll
guarantee you, if you thought of it this way, I don't care
if we met at two o'clock in the morning and you hadn't slept
but a half hour, and you thought we're coming now. to a meeting
of the family, to read the testament of our elder brother. You'd be
here before we got doors open. I guarantee it. This is what
we do. We come together and all I'm
trying to do is tell you what God says in the testament. And if God the Holy Spirit speaks
it to your heart, And he says, this is what is left to you,
eternal life. That's when sinners are converted. All right, now look at the picture
of Christ's blood redemption in verses 18 through 23. I'll
have to just kind of touch on this, come back to it later.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people concerning
the law, or according to the law, he took the blood of calves
and of goats with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and
sprinkled both the book and all the people." Now, he took the
blood, and he took water, and he took scarlet wool, and he
took hyssop, and sprinkled everything. Just sprinkled everything with
blood. Folks, I've heard fellas say he just sloshed blood everywhere.
Oh no, he meticulously sprinkled the blood, just like God said
to him, just like God said to him. Blood, the sacrifice of
Christ, blood and water gushing out of
our Savior's side when he was pierced at Calvary, when that
soldier thrust the spear through his heart. blood by which we
are justified, water picturing the spirit of his grace by which
we are sanctified in the new birth, and hyssop. That thing,
that scarlet wool and hyssop, by which the blood was applied
to all those things. God the Holy Spirit comes and
sprinkles the blood on your hearts. All right, read on. He said as
he did this, this is the blood of the which God has enjoined
unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled with blood
the tabernacle and the vessels of the ministry, and almost all
things are by the law purged with blood." Now, this is what
he's saying. There are some things that were
purged with fire. There are some things that were purged in other
ways. But most everything was purged with blood. Now, then
look at the next slide. But everything pertaining to
forgiveness. Everything pertaining to forgiveness,
every sacrifice in the Old Testament pertaining to forgiveness, not
the meal offerings, not the wave offering, but everything pertaining
to forgiveness was purged with blood. Look at the next line.
And without shedding of blood is no remission. You'll never
find God anywhere in the Old Testament or the New speaking
peace, forgiveness, remission, and pardon to anybody except
by the blood. Nowhere. You read it back there
in Judges chapter 14, was it? Chapter 12, wasn't it? Where
Manoah and his wife made a sacrifice. A sacrifice they thought they
were talking to a man. They didn't know they were talking
to God the Son. They made a sacrifice to God
because that's what they were commanded to do. And when they
made the sacrifice, the angel did wondrously and ascended up
into heaven, showing us that Jesus Christ, the angel of the
Lord, the angel of the covenant, the Son of God, wondrously ascended
up into heaven, giving us access to God. And poor Manoah, he didn't
know what was going on, but his wife did. He said, we've seen
God, we're going to die. She said, if God intended to
kill us, he wouldn't have shown us this. He wouldn't have shown
us this. Oh no, now we're sure enough
going to live. Read on. It was therefore necessary,
necessary, necessary. That's not put there for nothing.
Necessary. That the patterns of things in
the heavens should be purified with these. But if the things,
those patterns, if the tabernacle and the altar and the mercy seat
and the scroll containing the law of all those things had to
be purified with blood, how much more the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these. All right, look at the last few
verses here in this chapter, verses 24 through 28. For Christ
is not entered into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the truth, but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer
himself often, no need for that, like that high priest in For
as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with
the blood of others, for then must he often have suffered since
the foundation of the world. He had had to have suffered thousands
of times. But now, one time, because one time is enough, one
time got the job done, one time satisfied One time answered the
demands of God's law. One time fulfilled the covenant.
One time will speak peace to your heart. One time. Now, one
time in the end of the world. Now, isn't that strange language?
In the end of the world? Next time you hear somebody talk
about signs of the times, end times, end times coming, But
when the end time comes, take them back here to Hebrews 9.26
and say that's when it was. The end of the world began when
he ended all things in the Old Testament and began this gospel
day. This is the last time. Paid no attention, absolutely
no attention, to those who would set your heart on times and seasons
and turn your heart away from him, who in the end of the world
hath appeared to put away sin. by the sacrifice of himself.
Now then, I wonder if he got the job done. I wonder if he
did. I wonder if he actually put away
all the sins of God's elect imputed to him which he bore in his own
body upon the cursed tree. Well, let's see. Has it appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment? So too, by
divine appointment, Christ was once offered to bear the sins
of many. And to them which look for him
shall he appear the second time without any. Unto selfish. He set yonder in glory who was
made to be sin. made to be such sin as was never
seen before on one man. On him God made to meet all the
sins of all his people for all time. And he became a horrid
massive iniquity. He was made sin. But now he has no sin. He has no sin. He put it away. He put it away. And in Him, we
have been made as He is. Peter says in 1 Peter 4.1, freed
from sin. When He rose from the dead, He
was freed. We rose in Him free. Therefore,
there is therefore now no condemnation. to them that are in Christ Jesus,
for he has applied his blood at the mercy seat in heaven and
obtained eternal redemption for us. That's the last thing, the
application. It's been made already in heaven.
Oh, I pray that God the Holy Spirit has made it in your heart. Amen.